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You fucked up by playing FF9.
Zing!!
Never had a PS so I would not know... The thing is that when I play rpg's I always grind a bit so I can get a lot of the items the monster's drop. (I am a gaming perfectionist.) Maybe you should check gamefaqs?
and RPG without mandatory grinding, isn't that a counterdiction in terms?
I fucking love this game, and remember most of the plot details. Where the hell are you, and maybe I can remember how I did it.
Buy healing items if you don't have a healer mage. It's pretty simple.
You may have walked out the wrong exit, if you're where I think you are. There's a fake exit to the dragon cave thing where a bunch of level 90 Dragons roam around ready to rape you silly if you so foolishly leave through it.
The other five without resorting to grinding? Sucks to be you because I guess you haven't played FF4 or FF6 then.
Wait. Since when did FF4 or 6 require grinding?
You have to eventually grind in FF4 Hard Type (the only version worth playing). If you make it to the end of the game without grinding you will simply be far too low level to beat Zeromus, period.
And even if you repeatedly switch people out and give everyone equal time and train them properly, you'll probably still need to do some leveling up for Kefka's Tower.
But, please, I'd love to be proven wrong here. Go make a video of you at about level 40 beating Zeromus (because level 40 is roughly what you'd be at if you went through the game without grinding); no GBA or Easy Mode bullshit; Hard Type only.
Good luck with Big Bang killing off your party.
in my opinion 9 was the last decent final fantasy. never really liked the ones on ps2.
oh if only i could go back and have all the time i wasted catching those damn frogs.... i'd probably just spend it catching all those dsmn frogs
Actually I stand corrected on 4. Supposedly this japanese video I found on youtube beats Zeromus with Kain being level 31. They say it's possible if you get extremely lucky on the timing and Kain has extremely high speed.
Well, I never had to grind in FF6, in any case.
I have an FF4 hardtype save near the end, wherein I've done no grinding and I'm like level 50 or so. Maybe I'll load it up one of these days and actually do it. Honestly, Zeromus is all about pattern recognition. He counters certain actions with certain moves, so if you're careful and learn when to attack him and when not to, he's easy as cake.
IIRC the basic strategy is to just have a ton of healing items in your inventory, and have three characters spend all their time healing with only two of your heaviest hitters(Edge throwing shit, Kain Jumping, Rydia + Bahamut) attacking in a round.
Oh, and re: Kefka's tower, I usually just enter/exit the tower two to three times, and move my power party around to beat the bejesus out of the endgame bosses. I generally stick like, Gau, Relm, and Celes into a party with Mog and give him the Moogle Charm and Sprint Shoes, and just have him run around and find items and press switches. Then, once I clear the other two paths and get left with the statue on his side, cast Warp and run the dungeon once more really fast with that same party taking a cleared path. No reason to pointlessly level all your worthless party members up for that silly thing.
@notdryad: The other five I've played are 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8. Cleared them all, no grinding necessary. The sidequests were more than enough to get my guys up to snuff for 6.
As regards where I was, the hunt festival had just finished, the black mages had just attacked whatever country Freya came from, and Dagger and Steiner had run off ahead of the party. I went to the cave they mentioned, beat a few black mages and got my ass handed to me by some weird worm-thing with a fan. It was a random, too, which is just shameful.
I've always hated grinding but it totally made it worth it to have that feeling of badassness when I would just crush a boss in a couple of turns.